Most Anticipated Board Games of 2022

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2022 is in full swing and with a new year, comes new games! Every January the BGQ crew looks ahead to potential new board game releases that have caught our attention. These are games that, for various reasons, we just can’t wait to get our grubby little hands on. So let’s skip any more of the preamble and just focus on the good stuff: the board games.

Chosen by TonyLast year I chose Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood of Venice for my most anticipated game of the year and it ended up coming in at #2 on my Top 10 Board Games of 2021 list. I’m definitely hoping that Frostpunk delivers on the same video game to board game experience. If you haven’t played it, Frostpunk is a post-apocalyptic video game where you are running a settlement of survivors trying to eke out an existence in a world covered by snow and freezing cold. I tried the demo on Tabletop Simulator during their Kickstarter campaign and loved how they captured the bleak, back-up-against-the-wall feeling from the video game. It did remind me a little of This War of Mine: The Board Game in that there are tough decisions to make and not everyone will survive. As the team has been working to improve the game since the Kickstarter closed, I can’t wait to get my hands on this game and see how it holds up.

Chosen by BrandonWaylaid by worldwide shipping woes is the next release from Euro designers Simone Luciani (Grand Austria Hotel) and Nestore Mangone (Newton). Coming to shores sometime in early-to-mid 2022, Darwin’s Journey looks to feature lush production and artwork, on top of a worker placement, contract fulfillment, and set collection framework, based around the memories of Charles Darwin’s adventure through the Galapagos. The unique mechanism here is the way that